The Index of Middle English Prose – Handlist XVII: Manuscripts in the Library o…

The Index of Middle English ProseHandlist XVII: Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge\nAuthor(s): Kari Anne Rand Schmidt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9780859916110, 978-0859916110\nSynopsis\nFifty-five catalogued manuscripts include major religious works and medical writing - on uroscopy, surgery, bloodletting and pestilence.\n\nMajor religious works among the fifty-five manuscripts indexed in this handlist include a thirteenth-century copy of the Ancrene Riwle, Rolle's Forme of Living and the English translation of his Emendatio vitae, the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, Mirk's Festial, the Pilgrimage of the Soul, the Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom and the apparently unique English translation of the Wycliffite Rosarium theologie. Medical writing is also well represented, with a number of extensive compilations which also contain medical recipes. Uroscopy texts inclu.